Improvement in hoes



GvrLns T.JLoB"soN,oF MACON, GEORGIA.

Leners Paten: No. 98,598, dated January 4, 1870.

IMPRQvEMENT IN ness.

The Schedule referred to in these LettemPatent making part of the lame.

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, Grrnns T. J oBsoN, of Macon, in the county of Bibb, =and State of Georgia, have in- -vented a-new and useful Improvement in Attaching Hoes and other Tools to Handles; adIdo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, Vand exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the Vart to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. l Y 1 This invention relates to improvement in hoes and similar implements; and Y It consists in providing the same with sections of tubular shanks, as hereinafter specified.

Figure 4l represents a side elevation of my improved tool, and i.

Figure 2 represents a section ofthe same, taken on the line x a: of'g. 1. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. f

A is the hoe, and B, the `rake or other tool,` each of .which is provided with a metal shank, C, D representing, in form, a longitudinal section of a tube slightly tapered.

These Shanks are placed on the handle E, as rep resented in the drawings, and secured thereto by the clamping-ring F, driven from the upper endl down to ward the lower end, which is the largest, thereby rmly clamping them to the handle in a simple and `efficient way, attaching two, tools to one shank; or, if

only one tool is required, I substitute a half ferrule, G, `in the placeA of the shank of one tool. f

Hav-ing'thns described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patentl A hoe (or similar implement) provided'with a sec tional tubular shank, O, asand for the purpose specified.

` Witnesses:

GRENYILLE Woon, "JOHN J. FoRsYTH; 

